世纪姻缘:哲学的诗与文学的思

Marriage of the 20thCentury: Philosophy and Literature

从古希腊到19世纪,从柏拉图到黑格尔,哲学家和文学家们认为哲学和文学是截然不同的,哲学表现的是人类理性、终极的价值,而文学仅涉及到人类动荡不安的感情,理性是至高无尚的。进入20世纪,这种观念受到严重的挑战。非理性主义对传统理性发出强有力的攻击,反叛与否定开始了。不独是哲学,文学流派,如现代派、后现代主义等也张起了反叛与否定的旗帜。20世纪的文学与哲学正在消泯着它们之间的界限,在两者间搭建起一座相互连接的桥梁。

From the age of the ancient Greece to the nineteenth century, from Plato to Hegel, all the philosophers and literary men took for granted that philosophy and literature were poles apart, for philosophy pursued reason and the ultimate value of human beings while literature engaged in changeable feelings of human beings. Reason used to be taken as sublime. The 20 thcentury saw a challenge to such an idea. Revolt and negation began with the heavy attack of Non - rationalism on the traditional rationalism, and spread to the various schools of literature, like Modernism, Postmodernism and the like. In the 20 th century the chasm between literature and philosophy tended to vanish and a bridge was built up to connect them.